Did your heavy sleeper partner wake up for baby?

My partner was a really heavy sleeper. The first week or two he was the same, I think it was just the newborn sleep deprivation hitting all of a sudden. He got used to it and a few weeks after he wakes even quicker than I do

Never has. Probably never will 🙄 but I was a heavier sleeper than him before a baby and now the second I hear a peep I'm awake

Mine never has helped with night feeds, and the only time he's ever said anything was to say the baby is awake and needs a feed. Never actually got up to change nappies or anything like that

Nope. My partner fell asleep standing up in the hospital after our second was born.
He used to do the 10pm dream feed but kept falling asleep with her so I decided I'd just do it.
Women are programmed to wake to babies noises, men are not. It's basic nature.
He also doesn't wake in the night to either of our children no matter their age. You learn to live with it 🤷🏻‍♀️ I'd say get him to take over when he's back from work so you can get some rest leading up to 9/10pm and then you take over. You do need to get as much sleep as you are able so maybe talk to him and come up with a plan x

My husband was/is a heavy sleeper. I feel like for him it depends on the night, some nights he sleeps through everything and some nights he wakes up. I’m also a sahm tho and my son is super clingy to just me so I typically just do nighttime wakes and it doesn’t really bother me unless he’s up all the time

My husband is a very heavy sleeper and doesn’t wake to baby noises - even when she used to cry as a newborn. Nothing’s changed and we’re six months in 🤣 I used to get really annoyed when I was incredibly sleep deprived, however if I wake him, he’ll happily sort baby out while I go back to sleep so I can’t complain really. He can’t control how heavy a sleeper he is (as much as I’ve willed him to at times 🤣)🤷🏼‍♀️
Now my girl is 6 months and my husband is at work full time, I do the nighttime wake ups (mostly the odd stir and need for the dummy to be put back in - no feeds etc) however when he had his 3 weeks pat leave, he did all of the night feeds so that I could recover from my section. I did have to wake him, but definitely didn’t mind as he was doing the feeding so!
His heavy sleeping does make me think though ‘oh what if I had a night away, would he wake up for her?’ - his snoring was so bad last night I would’ve slept in the spare room back in the pre-baby days, but didn’t!

We dont have the baby here yet but he’s extremely heavy sleeper and he wakes up to let the dog out. Mind you, my dog just whispers in our faces he wants to go out…

It’s probably the lack of sleep; once you guys get into a routine and are able to catch up on sleep it gets easier.

Hope the hell does he wake up for work?

he wakes up to his alarm after a little bit, or I smack his arm until he wakes up. I think the sleep deprivation is why he was so dead asleep today I just hope it doesn’t last

I usually have to wake him to to get the baby because his cries don’t wake him. even when we were in the hospital luckily he had his Apple Watch on so I texted him and that woke him up smh

No it was and still is one of our biggest issues

Mine doesn’t wake up to the baby but will when I nudge him. So he does help out during the night he just needs a shove to get going

Mine does not wake up and on the off chance he does he is so groggy he doesn't really know what to do. Even when I wake him up he just doesn't understand or he will say he's going, but doesn't actually go.
What worked for us was...he stayed up and took care of the baby while I went to bed when baby did. Then around 2a he would go to bed and I would wake up when the baby needed me and then I would let him sleep in longer in the morning.

My husband doesn’t wake at all for the crying, so what he does is stays awake until 1-2am while watching TV or playing a game so I can get uninterrupted sleep before I have to be up a bunch. I don’t think you can change how heavy you sleep, it’s biology. I became a light sleeper again when it came close to my 2nd’s birth, I went from able to sleep through my toddler waking to literally being able to hear him drink his water through two closed doors even if he didn’t cry

i think this is super common!! A bunch of my friends do this too

Don't count on him waking up when you're there. I personally don't know a man that does. You either do the nights, or wake him up, but you'll be up anyways

No

No, he still is a heavy sleeper and baby is a year old. He would wake to me shoving him though so if I needed him to take a shift I’d just give him a shove and he’d get up